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JK Francis & Son
We are leading Export Packers, Dangerous Goods Packers, Case Makers and Freight Forwarders with over 100 years of trading and experience behind us. As leading Case Makers, Export Packers and Dangerous Goods Packers we supply Export Packing Cases, Shipping Crates, Export Packing, Dangerous Goods Packing and Freight Forwarding services to a broad customer base covering every business sector.

Our case makers, export packers and freight forwarding team are the best in the business, providing the very Best Protection when shipping your goods. Our Expertise is unrivaled. We are ideally located in Birmingham, West Midlands and provide our services throughout the Midlands and U.K.
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Established in 1914, JK Francis & Son Ltd are one of the UK's longest established, and proven suppliers of professional tailor-made Export Packing services. For over 100 Years we have supplied our bespoke Wooden ISPM15 Export Packing Cases, Shipping Crates, Bespoke Pallets, Export Packing and Freight Forwarding Solutions to almost every imaginable business sector.
J.K. Francis & Son Ltd have well over a hundred years of experience in supplying bespoke export services including export packing cases, shipping crates and pallets, worldwide sea and air freight, European road freight, and dangerous goods packing to every business sector.

We also provide expert packing services and solutions for domestic and worldwide relocation's, J.K. Francis & Son Ltd has built a reputation that is second to none throughout or trading sector based on reliable, cost effective, high quality services.You can contact JK Francis by either using the contact form of by giving us a call, our team of experts are always happy to help.
With over 100 years of experience of Crating and Casing behind us we are one of the UK's most trusted export packing companies. We are professional export packers, our mission is to ensure that your goods are fully protected from damage during transit and worldwide shipping.

We are the one-stop shop when it comes to exporting your goods, from collecting and packing your consignment to shipping it to any worldwide destination, no matter how small or large, fragile or valuable, light or heavy, we are the first choice for export packing and freight forwarding.
At JK Francis & Son Ltd we are passionate about Dangerous Goods Packing and we are one of the UK's leading Dangerous Goods Packing and Worldwide Shipping companies, with over 40 years of experience, our aim is to provide cost-effective Dangerous Goods Packing for Air and Sea Freight and remove the complexities of Packing, Shipping and Exporting Dangerous Goods.
With over 100 years of trading and experience behind us we are experts in the design, manufacture and supply of Wooden Packing Cases, Shipping Crates, Plywood Cases, OSB Cases and Bespoke Pallets.

We can manufacture our products to meet any specific specification or we can advise and provide the most suitable and cost effective specification and design that will provide the very best protection for your goods throughout transit, We provide packaging solutions for products of any size, complexity and fragility.
Reviews (12)
Trent Mainwaring
Trent Mainwaring
Sep 12, 2021
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JK Francis & Son Ltd provided us with a stellar service. We are based in NZ and procured some used machinery from the UK that required a robust, custom crate for seafreight export. They were extremely easy to deal with remotely via email and had good communication throughout the project. They also handled the delivery to our subcontracted machinery mover in a very short lead time. We are very pleased with their service and quality of workmanship.
Daryush Fitter
Daryush Fitter
Mar 12, 2021
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JK Francis & Son Ltd were the only packaging company that would make custom packaging for 6 classic car windscreens for shipping to New Zealand.
Additionally, the windscreen suppliers weren't very co-operative in having them delivered, so Richard travelled from Birmingham to London to collect them personally.
All 6 windscreens arrived safely - all due to their very professional packaging. Totally recommended.
Richard Mahon Managing Director
Charles Arnot
Charles Arnot
Jan 20, 2021
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We had an excellent experience with JK Francis and would highly recommend them! Nigel from the sales team helped us design custom packaging for road haulage; he was knowledgable, polite and enthusiastic. Everything was arranged on time and on budget. We would certainly use this firm again.
Nicola McDonald
Nicola McDonald
Oct 12, 2020
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Excellent bespoke service. Extremely efficient, very professional, friendly and accommodating of specific needs. Quality of product ordered was actually a lot better than expected and in an excellent timely manner. Can certainly recommend and will definitely use again. Thank you J K Francis, a wonderful service.
David Weiss
David Weiss
Aug 08, 2020
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Needed to order a wooden shipping crate to ship a fragile and expensive clock to the USA. This company handled everything from manufacture of the crate, packing the clock (which I delivered to them) and then arranged the final shipping through, on this occasion, FedEx and at a better price than if I booked it myself. Excellent service and will certainly use again.
Ann Gott
Ann Gott
Jul 21, 2020
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We needed to urgently despatch some hand sanitizers to Hong Kong which was proving extremely problematic with our usual freight forwarders. However one quick phone call to JK Francis and we were able to immediately facilitate this for our client. We were kept informed every step of the way ensuring our client received these in good time.
Would have no hesitation in recommending these guys, a total *5 star experience all of the way and will definitely be using them again.
Trisha Mahon
Trisha Mahon
Feb 05, 2019
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The great customer service we received, and our goods arrived the other side of the world on time and in the same condition they left us
would highly recommend
Dan Ainsworth
Dan Ainsworth
Sep 10, 2018
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We are a production company based in London. We had to get made and shipping containers very quickly to New York for a project we were doing out there. timings were extremely tight and although don't normally write reviews. JK Francis were amazing! They went beyond the call of duty and without them we would not have shipped everything in time, highly highly recommend and we wont be using anyone else going foward!
Chris Hubbocks
Chris Hubbocks
Aug 12, 2018
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Highly recommended. Huge thank you to the team at JK Francis for their services in building a shipping case for heavy cherished item and handling shipping process start to finish to USA. Great communication and professional throughout made it a simple process.
Olive Lowe
Olive Lowe
Oct 21, 2016
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I had an occasion to use JK Francis to pack and crate up my sons set of drums plus other items to the Carribean. Their service was prompt, efficient and professional. I visited their premises and found them to be very organised, and clean with staff who were very knowledgable. All staff were very approachable demonstrating excellent customer service. My shipment arrived undamaged and all in tact. I would not hesitate to use this company again.
Trish Coley
Trish Coley
Aug 19, 2016
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I would definitely recommend this company. I recently used them to pack and ship machinery to Cyprus. The team at JK Francis were professional from start to finish.
I was provided with several export packing and freight options, each were explained in detail which helped me to select just what I needed. Nothing was a problem for them.
They are efficient and get the job done. Excellent service and an excellent company to work with.
Chris Michailidis
Chris Michailidis
Jun 19, 2016
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I have used this company on several occasions, I can honestly say they have been excellent to work with, their export packing and worldwide freight services are the very best and I have tried many companies in the past. The staff at JK Francis have always gone the extra mile to ensure the delivery of my demanding packing and freight requirements, they have delivered to the remotest worldwide locations without any issues.
The customer service I have received has been second to none, they are all very knowledgeable and explain everything in detail, I know exactly what will be happening and when